June 30, 2026
25 Years Ago - July 3, 2001
Retired schools superintendent Richard Gulick will be the grand marhall of the July 7 Pendleton County parade.
He will be celebrating his 87th birthday on July 4. Gulick graduated from Falmouth High School in 1932, received football and basketball scholarships to the University of Cincinnati, and received his master’s degree in 1941 from the University of Kentucky.
From 1936 to 1966, he taught and/or was principal at McKenneysburg, Goforth, Morgan and Pendleton High schools, and from 1966 to 1979 was either superintendent or assistant superintendent of county schools. He also is a member of the 10th Region Basketball Coaches Hall of Fame, and the 1998 Chamber of Commerce Citizen of the Year. * * *
The United States Achievement Academy announced that Diane Fossitt of Peach Grove has been named an All-American Collegiate Scholar.
The USAA has established the All-American Collegiate Award Program to offer deserved recognition to superior students who excel in the academic disciplines.
50 Years Ago - July 2, 1976
Paul E. Hall Jr. of Foster was elected state 4-H president. It was the first time in the history of Northern Kentucky that someone from the area had been elected to the top spot of 4-H.
Pendleton County 4-H’ers put up a welcome home sign outside of the Farm Bureau building, where a surprise reception was held when Hall returned from the University of Kentucky campus, where the state meeting and election was held.
Steve Conrad of Pendleton County had been a nominee for vice president. Jill Conrad was selected as the Northern Kentucky Area representative.
The delegation from Pendleton County also included Ann Moore, Andrea Cox, Julie Hart, Sandra Lach, Denise Best, Diane Best, Fran Carr, Amy Tuemler, Ronald DeWald and Tammy Flaugher. Karen Davis, the county Extension agent, also attended.
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The schedule for Pendleton County’s July 3 celebration of America’s 200th birthday in downtown Falmouth includes:
1 p.m., Jim Hayes, Shelby Cummins, Kenny Lea Group.
2:30 p.m, egg toss and frog hopping contests in front of the Pastime Theatre. Bring frogs to be marked before the contest.
3 p.m., Sweet Surprise, a young singing group
3:45 p.m., Grassy Creek Christian Church Choir
75 Years Ago - July 6, 1951
The Falmouth baseball team is still undefeated for 1951. They played Paris Moose Lodge Sunday afternoon and won 11 to 4.
Pitching for Falmouth was Ralph Wright, who did an excellent job, allowing only five hits and walking seven.
Leading batter for Falmouth was Paul Craig of Butler, left fielder, who got four hits.
Falmouth’s lineup included Paul Turner, 2B; E. Woods, 3B; T. Schwartz, CF; D. Braughler, SS; Donald Wright, RF; B.K. Baker, C; and B. Williams, 1B.
Woods, of Brooksville, received a broken right leg in the fifth inning when he slid into second base. He was taken to Brooksville and given first aid and then removed to Hayswood Hospital.
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The meeting of the Morgan and Williamstown Road Homemakers, held June 13 at the home of Mrs. Talmage Antrobus, was called to order by the president, Mrs. Floyd Wills. Roll call was answered by “how I met my husband.”
After the business session, a picnic was planned by the group, which will be held sometime in July. After the noon hour, all enjoyed the lesson on flower arrangement given by Miss Knarr.
Those present were Mrs. James Kenner, Mrs. Frank Klaber, Mrs. Harry Parker, Mrs. Floyd Wills, Mrs. Floyd Whaley, Mrs. Elmer Wills, Mrs. Talmage Antrobus, Miss Katharine Antrobus and Miss Knarr.
The August meeting will be held in the home of Mrs. Charles Bailey.
100 Years Ago - July 2, 1926
“Despondent, miserable, heartbroken, I give up the cares of life in despair,” wrote Mrs. Elizabeth Cookendorfer, 50, of near Caddo, just before she drank the bitter contents of a vial of carbolic acid early Monday morning. She lived only a few minutes after drinking the poison, dying about 4:30 o’clock.
A granddaughter sleeping in the same room was awakened by Mrs. Cookendorfer pulling at the covers on her bed. The child realized something was wrong and ran for help. Dr. O.W. Brown of Lenoxburg was summoned, but Mrs. Cookendorfer died a few minutes after the physician arrived.
The last hours of the dead woman were spent in writing farewell letters to her friends. One letter was found pinned to her nightgown. Another was received by The Outlook on Monday, in which she told of the cause of her sorrow. She enclosed $1 in cash in the letter with the request that it be published in full.
Owing to the nature of the missive, The Outlook regrets that it cannot comply with the dead woman’s request and publish the letter in full.
“I loved him dearer than I loved my life,” she wrote in part, referring to her former husband, from whom she was divorced several years ago. “For almost five years my heart has never ceased bleeding; for me he made trouble rise like a mountain of sorrow deep as the sea.
“But still down in this aching heart of mine, which he won, that pure, true love for him remains. If he had just spoken one kind word to me, what a comfort it would have been. There are things which cannot be hidden from the All-Seeing Eye.”
4 p.m., Oakland Christian Church Choir presenting, “I Love America”
5 p.m., Mickey Craig, guitar, and Randy Seiter, banjo
5:45 p.m., Lions Club balloon release
6 p.m., Walter Joyner Gospel Group, with Rick Joyner, Randal Joyner, Tom Joyner and Homer Bohn
6:30 p.m., Grassy Creek Band, with Lynn Booher, Jessie Browning, Louis Conrad, Bill Lawarre and Ralph Murphy
7:30 p.m., Pendleton County High School Band
6/30/26